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Even Dead Trees Cast a Shadow

Gilpin’s poem “Life after Death” prompts us to honor those who have gone before.

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Homer, Virgil, Dante and the Afterlife

Literary afterlives, such as we encounter in Homer, Virgil, and Dante, are as much about this world as the next.

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Halloween Horrors in the Aeneid

For Halloween, check out the monsters who greet Aeneas on his way to the underworld.

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Do Not Stand by My Grave and Weep

As Slovenes this past week visited the graves of those who have passed on, I thought of Frye’s poem “Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep.”

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the passing of all shining things

e.e. cummings has a dialogue with Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” in his own poem about autumn. I include Frost and Oliver in the reflection as well.

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Birds on His Shoulders, Faith in His Hands

In “Standard Time: A Novena for My Father,” Martinez wrestles with his doubts about whether his father is in some sense still present.

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The Green Knight on Handling Death

“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” is one of the most profound works I know for dealing with death.

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Mass Extinctions Followed by Life

Richard Shelton’s poem “Death” reminds us that we are part of the world that we are destroying.

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Roger Ebert’s Kinship with Whitman

In reflecting on death and dying, Roger Ebert turned to literature rather than to film.

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